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View all search resultsSingaporean airline Scoot launched twice-weekly flights between Belitung and Singapore on Sunday, marking the route’s inaugural service.
2 hours agoAsian stocks soared to record highs on Thursday while the US dollar slipped and oil nursed steep losses as traders embraced the prospect of a peace deal in the Middle East, although the fate of the critical Strait of Hormuz remains unresolved.
4 hours agoAs the government looks to replace millions of subsidized 3‑kilogram LPG cylinders with compressed natural gas (CNG) to reduce costly imports, experts warn the switch would require billions of dollars in investment, and a tight safety regime.
8 hours agoThe rupiah extended its slide to 17,425 per US dollar on Tuesday, according to the Jakarta Interbank Spot Dollar Rate (JISDOR), underscoring Southeast Asia’s largest economy’s struggle to halt the currency’s decline since early this year.
18 hours agoAvtur prices at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta rose to Rp 27,358 (US$1.57) per liter for May period, up 16 percent from Rp 23,551 per liter in April and more than doubling from Rp 13,656 in March.
1 day agoThe bad loan rate began to spike in November 2025 and now hovers above 4 percent, while the fintech sector has come under pressure recently following the KPPU's ruling on monopolistic practices related to interest rates.
1 day agoIn a push to reduce the burden of fuel subsidies on the state budget and boost growth in the latter two quarters, the government is planning to roll out a new incentive for purchases of electric two- and four-wheelers in June.
1 day agoOil prices extended losses and stocks rallied Wednesday on fresh hopes for an end to the Iran war and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, while Samsung blasted past the $1 trillion valuation mark as the AI tech boom continued apace.
1 day agoAgentic AI are execution models involving autonomous agents that coordinate across workflows, tools and systems with minimal human input.
3 days agoEU countries and European Parliament lawmakers failed to reach a deal on watered-down landmark artificial intelligence rules after 12 hours of negotiations on Tuesday and will resume talks next month.
1 week agoWith over 43 million merchants connected to the Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) payment system as of January, digitalization now defines the identity of today's tech-savvy market traders, moving beyond large corporations.
1 week agoPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said tech giants Meta, Google and TikTok would be given a chance to strike content deals with local news publishers.
1 week agoThe close collaboration with Huawei on the new model, the V4, contrasts with DeepSeek's past reliance on Nvidia's AI chips.
1 week agoTim Cook will be replaced by company veteran John Ternus, who joined Apple’s product design team in 2001 and rose to become senior vice president of hardware engineering over the following two decades.
2 weeks agoEvery dollar increase in the global oil price adds a burden of about Rp 6.8 billion (around $400 million) to the state budget.
1 day agoFiscal strains are mounting across the region, particularly South Asia, as governments spend billions of dollars on subsidies and import duty waivers to compensate.
2 days agoBankrupt discount carrier Spirit Airlines ceased operations on Saturday, the industry's first casualty linked to the Iran war, after failing to secure creditor support for a US government bailout plan. All flights have been canceled, the statement said, asking passengers not to go to the airport.
4 days agoThe company's key areas of focus in Indonesia include energy, resources, water and environment.
1 week agoA new regulation stated that the protection of outsourced workers, including wages, overtime, social security and severance, is the responsibility of the outsourcing firm, while the principal company's role is to ensure compliance.
1 day agoPrabowo said he signed a presidential regulation which was the basis for the new maximum commission cap that ride-hailing firms could take from their driver partners.
6 days agoAsian stocks soared to record highs on Thursday while the US dollar slipped and oil nursed steep losses as traders embraced the prospect of a peace deal in the Middle East, although the fate of the critical Strait of Hormuz remains unresolved.
4 hours agoOil prices extended losses and stocks rallied Wednesday on fresh hopes for an end to the Iran war and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, while Samsung blasted past the $1 trillion valuation mark as the AI tech boom continued apace.
1 day agoShares edged higher while oil prices flatlined in Asia on Monday as investors drew comfort from signs of patchy progress in settling the Middle East conflict at the start of a week packed with earnings and key economic data.
3 days agoSaudi Arabia, Russia and five other OPEC+ countries increased their oil production quota on Sunday in an expected move aimed at demonstrating continuity at the cartel after the shock withdrawal of the United Arab Emirates.
3 days agoBrent oil futures soared another 7.6 percent to US$119.69, the highest price since the early days of the Ukraine war in 2022.
1 week agoEuro zone bond yields hit multi-week highs on Tuesday after a survey showed euro zone consumers expecting higher inflation, prompting markets to raise the likelihood of a hike in interest rates by the European Central Bank in the coming months.
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